Olympus OM-D E-M10 IV vs OM-D E-M1 Mark I

[Kimela]

I would like to mention that OM System uses Ebay as their official refurbished camera store so you can buy an EM10 IV on there for pretty cheap with a 2 year warranty. I did that after the one I had got destroyed in a housing flooding accident

Thanks!

To save others from searching, here’s the outlet page.

Security Measure

www.ebay.com

EDIT: I’m not sure why the thumbnail says ‘Security Measure’, but the link goes directly to the ebay outlet page

 

[BoltSnap]

I can get sharper pics that can be blown up without becoming pixilated too.

You should be using Topaz PhotoAI.

 

[bvanant]

Upres in LR/PS/Topaz/ many others now can take relatively small photos and make them useable.
Bill

 

[Diver Dave1]

I bought the EM10 IV with the Octo housing and MF2 strobes. I found the 300mm macro focused too slow to be very useful. Often I would try to take a picture and the focus was so slow that I thought the strobes just did not flash and I gave up on the photo, then after moving the camera and moving to a different position, the focus would hit and the shot would go off. It was really quite strange. The delay was many seconds. With my Nikon 105 micro, focus was pretty much immediate.

I liked the 14-42 much better.
I still prefer my old D7000 system but I will work at getting better with the new system.

I wrote a trip report and shared pictures. Below is a link to the trip report.

St Croix trip report

 

[BoltSnap]

300mm macro

300mm???

 

[Gdog]

I bought the EM10 IV with the Octo housing and MF2 strobes. I found the 300mm macro focused too slow to be very useful. Often I would try to take a picture and the focus was so slow that I thought the strobes just did not flash and I gave up on the photo, then after moving the camera and moving to a different position, the focus would hit and the shot would go off. It was really quite strange. The delay was many seconds. With my Nikon 105 micro, focus was pretty much immediate.

I liked the 14-42 much better.
I still prefer my old D7000 system but I will work at getting better with the new system.

I wrote a trip report and shared pictures. Below is a link to the trip report.

St Croix trip report

Surely you mean the 30mm

 

[Diver Dave1]

300mm???

My mistake. It should read 30mm,

 

[Diver Dave1]

Surely you mean the 30mm

Correction. 30mm, not 300.

 

[d^2b]

Correction. 30mm, not 300.

I haven't used it on that particular body, but I find the Olympus 30mm macro quite fast focusing (much faster than e.g. the Oly 60 mm macro). It is also true that these days I use a focus light, and strobes set on manual. In low light I can remember autofocus stuttering (with pretty much any lens) and also some weird flash delays when on TTL.

 

[Diver Dave1]

My mistake again. I did not buy the 30mm lens. I am using the Olympus 60mm lens.
Sorry for the error and any confusion.

I tried speeding focus up by having one strobe manually set to ON in addition to TTL, using it as a focus light.
My dive guide is also a photographer and recommended using back button focus for the 60mm, which is what she uses. Thus focusing in advance and only shooting subjects in that range....